Re: kofficetests validation

On Tuesday, November 09, 2010 14:28:22 pm Cyrille Berger Skott wrote:
> As I have said to Inge on IRC. I would agree to treat invalid ODF as
> release blockers, under the following conditions:
> 
> 1) That a proper explanation on why the use of the koffice namespace is
> invalid is provided (while, it seems the openoffice namespace is
> acceptable) 2) There are people commited to fix the problems
I am not committed to doing the fixes, but I have put quite some effort in 
making the errors visible. Since I'm working on entirely different code atm, I 
hope other people will have a look at the invalidly saved documents.
> 3) We have an easy way to get reports on the ODF validity (aka a page which
> list which documents are saved invalid)
This list can be found on http://158.36.191.251:8080/overview.html
We're not that far off. Currently 224 out of 3026 files are invalid or cause a 
crash.
> But I am unsure, if it is not too late in the 2.3 cycle to add this as
> release blocker, and if it should not be set as requirement for the next
> release.

To be clear, Chanis mail was not about the fact that koffice saves files as 
invalid ODF in about 5% of the cases. The question was, what to do about the 
fact that many of the files in kofficetests seem to be invalid ODF. Do we want to 
fix them? Chani is currently roundtripping files with ODFKit from zip to flat 
back to zip and checking that the files do not lose information or become 
invalid. Since many are invalid to begin with the size of the useful pool of 
documents is smaller than it could be.

Cheers,
Jos

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